Nathaniel Hawthorne / editor, Jack Lynch. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010. - vii, 336 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Nathaniel Hawthorne / Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Hawthorne and the canon of American literature / Nathaniel Hawthorne's critical reception / burden of secret sin: Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction / Nathaniel Hawthorne and American romanticism / scarlet letter / Chiefly about Coverdale: The Blithedale romance / Re-figuring revelations: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Hawthorne as essayist: Our old home and "Chiefly about war matters" / small heap of glittering fragments": Hawthorne's discontent with the short story form / Hawthorne and nineteenth-century perfectionism / Progress and providence in The house of the seven gables / Narrative techniques and the oral tradition in The scarlet letter / Hawthorne and the sublime / Hawthorne, the fall, and the psychology of maturity / Nathaniel Hawthorne and his mother: a biographical speculation / Agnostic tensions in Hawthorne's short stories / Jack Lynch -- Frank Day -- Elaine Blair -- Bridget M. Marshall -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Margarita Georgieva -- Jennifer Banach Palladino -- Hugo McPherson -- Clark Davis -- Evans Lansing Smith -- Thomas R. Moore -- Kathryn B. McKee -- Claudia D. Johnson -- John Gatta, Jr. -- John G. Bayer -- Leo B. Levy -- Melvin W. Askew -- Nina Baym -- Bill Christopherson. The The The "A

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 --Criticism and interpretation.

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